Nail-box.



No. 835,713. I

Y J. SCHUSTER.

NAIL BOX.

APPLIOATION FILED MAYZI, 1906.

PATENTEDNOV. 13-,1906.

WITNESSES.-

I NVENTOR A'TTORNE Y5 y F .m

1H: not): PETERS ca JOHN SOHUSTER, OF CLAY BANKS, WISCONSIN.

NAIL-BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 13, 1906.

Application filed May 21,1906. Serial No; 318,066.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN SoI-iUsTEn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Clay Banks, in the county of Door and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Nail-Box, of which the following is a specificat-ion.

This invention has relation to nailboxes; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of its parts, as hereinafter shown and described.

The object of the invention is to provide a receptacle for retaining nails in an orderly arrangement and readily accessible for use. The box is adapted to be attached to the belt of the workman and is especially convenient when applying shingles or laths. The box consists, primarily, of a series of channels which are wide enough to receive the shanks of the nails, but will not permit the heads to come through. With the nails so arranged in the channels and as the channels extend longitudinally of the box and the box is hung vertical from the belt of the wearer means must be provided at the lower ends of the channels for preventing the nails from falling out, but which at the same time will not interfere with the speedy removal of the lower nails when they are desired. The box may be so constructed as to permit of the adjustment of the width of the channels to receive nails of different sizes. For convenience in arranging the nails in order a nail-charger may be provided, in which the nails are indiscriminately thrown or placed. This charger is then operated to arrange the nails in initial or introductory channels, having at their lower ends projecting lips. Then a box is to be charged, the lips at the lower ends of said channels are slid over the sides of the chan nels in the box and the retaining-springs of the charger-channels are lifted, when the nails may be poured in regular order into the box.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of one form of the nailbox. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of another form of the nail-box. Fig. 3 1s a transverse sectional view of the corner of a nailbox, showin the means for adjusting the width of the nail-channels; and Fig. 4 is a perspective View of the nail-charger.

In the form of the invention as shown in Fig. 1 the box consists of the exterior transversely-rectangular 1, which is adapt ed to be closed on one side by a slide 2, having at its edges the grooves 3 3, adapted to slip over the laterally-extending flanges 4 4. Said slide is provided at its upper end with a hinged lid 5. tends transversely within t -e box. Said partition is provided with the longitudinallyextending channels 7 7, which are adapted to receive the shanks oi. the nails, but are not of suflicient width to permit the heads to fall through. At one end said partition 6 is provided with the angle flange 8, which is adapted to rest upon the transversely-extending support 9. Said angle-flange 8 is provided with the openings 10, which are lo cated in alinement with the channels 7 and through which the heads of the nails may pass. The end of the box at which the said flange 8 is located is not so deep or broad as the opposite end of the box. At the opposite end of said partition 6 the metal is carried up, forming the section 11, which is substantially at right angles to the partition 6 and is provided with the openings 12, which also register with the channels 7, and through which the heads of the nails are adapted to pass. At the upper edge of the portion 11 the metal is carried forward and bent back upon itself, forming a flange 13, (see Fig. 1,) which rests upon the transversely-extending support 14. Thus the partition 6 is held in place within the casing 1.

From the flange 13 the metal is carried back, forming the horizontal section 15, which rests at its edges upon the longitudinally-extending supports 16. Said portion 15 is provided with the spring-tongues 17, the ends of which bear down and rest upon the edges of the channels 7 7 near the lower ends thereof. The said springs 17 are adapted to bear upon the heads of the nails in the lower ends of the channels, and they offer sufficient friction to prevent the column of nails from slipping from the channel ends, it being understood that when the box 1 is applied to the belt of the workman the clip 18 is slipped behind the belt and the larger end of the box 1 hangs down, the box and channels 7 extending vertically. The object in increasing the dimensions of the lower end of the box and the space between the channels 7 7 at that end is that more room is afforded for the workman to insert his fingers to withdraw the nails.

The box as illustrated in Fig. 1 is intended to be used to retain the nails of the same sizes only, while the box illustrated in Fig. 2

The channel artition 6 ex' may be so adjusted as to receive nails of] different sizes. The box as shown in Fig. 2 consists of the rectangular casing 1, having the clip 18 and a cover (not shown) similar to that illustrated in Fig. 1. The channels 7 are formed by the partitions 19, which ex tend from one side of the box toward the removable side thereof. Said partitions are arranged in pairs and are secured at their lower edges to the side of the box. Each partition is provided near its upper edge with a shoulder 20, the shoulder of one partition being oppositely disposed. to the shoulder of its mate. The upper edge of each alternate partition is fixed to a crosspiece 21, there being such a crosspiece located at each end of the box. Thus the said partitions are held in stationary positions. The upper edges of the remaining partitions are fixed to the cross-bars 2].. Said bars are located one at each end of the box and are adapted to be shifted longitudinally. Thus in each pair of partitions 19 there is one fixed partition and one partition that may be adjusted or moved at its upper edge in lateral directions.

The screws 22 are journaled to the side of the box 1 and are held in the bearings 23 against longitudinal movement, but free to be rotated. The ends of the screws pass through the side of the box 1 and are screwthreaded into the flanges 241, formed at the ends of the cross-bars 21. It will thus be seen that by rotating the screws 22 the movable edges of the partitions 19 may be adjusted to such positions with relation to the fixed edges as to receive the nails of predetermined size. Furthermore, the screw 22 located nearest the larger end of the box 1 may be so adjusted as to slightly reduce the breadth of the space between the partitions 1.9, located at the said end, so that the said partitions at their shoulders will offer frictional contact to the lower nails of the columns or pinch the same in order to prevent them from falling from the columns of nails.

The ends of the partitions 19 and the ends of the side of the box 1 are provided with the recesses 25, in which the workman may insert his fingers for the purpose of withdrawing the nails from the box.

The charger, which may be used in connection with either one of the boxes above described, consists of a piece of sheet metal 26, mounted upon a frame 27. The upper portion of said sheet is provided with the end and side flanges 28, which are bent up to form a kind of a hopper. The said sheet 26 is also provided with the longitudinally-extending grooves 29, which at their lower ends terminate in projecting lips 30. One end of the sheet 26 is provided with the upright portion 31, having the openings 32, which are located above the said channels 29. The rearwardlyextending portion 33 is supported by the upwardly-extending portion 31. The springs 34 are fixed at one end. to the portion 33 and extend down through the openings 32 of the upright portion 31 and rest upon the lower ends of the channels 29. The hopper formed by the flanges 28 is provided with one movable side 35. Said side has at its ends the rearwardly-extending flanges 36, which are secured, by means of the pegs 37, to the sides 28 28, said sides 28 having the elongated perforations 38, the pegs 37 entering said perforations. The lower edge of the movable side 35 is provided with the recesses 39, which are located directly above the channels 29 of the plate 26. That portion of the plate 26 which constitutes the floor or bottom of the hopper, formed by the sides 28 and 35, is level or but slightly inclined, as at 40, while the remaining portion of the said sheet 26 is decidedly inclined, as at 4.1.

The nails are indiscriminately placed upon the portion 40 of the sheet 26 and between the sides 28 and 35 of the hopper. The shanks of some of the nails will immediately pass down through the channels 29, and such nails will hang by their heads in the channels. The device is then agitated by shaking or otherwise, and the nails as fast as they assume the positions in the channels 29, as above described will pass down the said channels toward the springs 34, the heads of the nails passing through the recesses 39 in the movable side 35. In order to cause the remaining nails upon the section 40 of the sheet 26 to assume the orderly positions above alluded to, the side 35 is reciprocated freely back and forth, and the nails thus being kept in a state of agitation will sooner or later assume the positions in the channels 29 as above indicated. When this is done, they immediately slide down the inclined portion 41 of the sheet 26 and are ready to be introduced into the nail-boxes.

In order to charge a nail-box, the smaller end of the box is placed in juxtaposition with relation to the lower end of the inclined portion 41 of the sheet 26. ,The lips 30 are slipped through the openings 10 of the flange 8 of the partition 6, as shown in Fig. 1, or upon the shoulders 20 of the partitions 19 at the smaller end of the box, as shown in Fig. 2. The free ends of the springs 32 of the charger are then elevated and the charger and nail-box are tilted into vertical positions, when the nails are'slid by gravity from the lips 30 into the channels of the nail-box.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A nail-box consisting of a body portion, a partition suitably supported therein and having longitudinallyextending channels of sufficient width to receive the shanks of the nails only, a portion extending back over one end of said partition and having springtongues cut therein, said spring-tongues bearing upon the channels at or near their ends and adapted to retain the nails.

2. A nail-box consisting of a body adapted to be applied to the clothing, said body having longitudinally extending channels arranged therein, said channels being of sufficient width to receive the shanks of the nails only, said box being of greater breadth and depth at its lower end than at its upper end and the space between the channels correspondingly increasing toward the lower ends, and means located at the lower ends of the channels for retaining the nails.

3. In combination with a box adapted to hold nails in a predetermined order, a means for arranging the nails in such an order and for delivering the same to the box consisting of a plate having a number of longitudinallyextending channels of sufficient width to receive the shanks of the nails only, said channels having at their lower ends projecting lips adapted to enter the nail-box, and means located near said lips for retaining the nails in the channels, said channels being inclined downwardly toward said lips.

4. In combination with a box for holding nails in a predetermined order, a means for arranging the nails in such order and delivering them to the boxes consisting of a plate having longitudinally-extending channels, a hopper arranged above said plate and adapted to receive the nails in indiscriminate order, said hopper having a movable side with recesses in its lower edge adapted to sweep over the plate and the channels, said plate having an inclined portion with projecting lips at itslower edge adapted to enter the box, and a means located near the lower ends of said channels for retaining the nails.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN SCHUSTER.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM BASTAR, JOHN PRUDULEK. 

